On the heels of two major Guyana-linked drug busts in the last month, customs authorities at the Port of Miami, on Monday acting on a tip off unearthed 373 pounds of cocaine hidden in furniture aboard a vessel, whose last stop was in this country.
The furniture in the container
This bust involved 194 packages valued at US$5.5M which was concealed in 72 pieces of furniture which was packed in a container. Investigations will likely be done to determine if the furniture was loaded here.
According to NBC6.NET, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers inspecting the containers at the Miami seaport were alerted by a CBP K-9 to a specific container loaded with furniture.
The officers, attached to the Anti-Terrorism Contra-band Enforcement Team, proceeded to examine the furniture and discovered three packages concealed within one of the pieces of furniture. One of the packages was tested by the officers and the substance was positive for cocaine. More packages of the drugs were discovered in 71 other pieces of furniture.
The container with the furniture arrived in Miami last Friday aboard the freighter M/V Rio Para. The container was moved to the CBP facility for examination and opened Monday. The vessel’s last port call was Guyana, the news article stated.
“Our men and women are working diligently, especially during the holidays, in protecting our borders against all forms of terrorism. Stopping the flow of illegal drugs is one of Customs and Border Protection’s primary missions,” said Ruby Hogan, Port of Miami CBP director, was quoted as saying.
Director of Field Operations Harold Woodward was quoted by the NBC 6.NET as saying that “This is an outstanding seizure, and it was accomplished with one of our specialized Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Teams at the seaport. We mustn’t forget the great work our K-9 units perform at our seaports as well as the airports”.
Two shipments of pepper sauce from Guyana with cocaine stuffed into the dividers of the cartons were seized this month in Canada and the USVI.
Just take a look around Georgetown…and many of the rural comunities in Guyana…and see how many three, four and even five story buildings have gone up during the past five years or so…and which remain up-occupied, or partly occupied…sometimes for years. Just take a look at the number of SUVs with heavy tinted windows driving around the place, blaring very loud music…in Guyana,a country referred to as being very POOR…That tells a story…those structures and SUVs are talking loudly…especially to our impressonable youth. Meanvhile, the honest hard-working Guyanese…the teachers, the nurses, the every-day people…the salt-of-the-earth…are living on a slippery economic up-hill slope…and some of the hopeless youth of the nation are conversing about the kind of funeral they want…youths who feel their life expectancy is not beyond 25 years. What a difference from the days of MY Youth! But there IS a Bright side of GUYANA…a side not internationally known…just look and listen closer…and you will see and hear some of the most beautiful and inspiring stories of a people who look not only at the mud on the seashore…but to the rocks on the summits of the Pakaraima and Kanaku mountain ranges…and continue to sing: “Onward, Upward, may we ever go; Day by day in strength and Beauty grow, till at length, we all of us may show what Guyana sons and daughters can be”. AMEN.
True True Pixture THAT + ‘This is awe these time’=> disgrace.
You make so much sense,,,We need more of your intellegent imput as opposed to some others I read.
And don’t forget the Imataka mountains in the North West. In case thing get bad on the coast I can always go deh and plant lil COCOA (note the spelling)and mek a lil living exporting CHOCOLATE (note the spelling)…
Hey Francis Q!..’Onward,Upward, may we ever go:’ no Ndugu it’s more like ‘Backward, Downward, forever we will remain: Remember my rafiki (friend), Guyana’s home but it ain’t yours or mine no more…
The people, who set this cancer/plague in motion, believe in an ideology devoid of basic morals and decency. And I don’t think they care because, honestly, Guyana was never really their home. Bannas, it’s nice to hear that you’re still squawking about, day by day in strength and beauty grow and what Guyana sons and daughters can be…
SWAT, you can Consider it as “white muddd”
OMG!!!what a shame on guyana and the guyanese people!.the ppp government is doing a fine job for we the guyanese people,hat’s off to you guy’s.and there is still more to come…………….have a happy 2009 to all of you bloggers.
Some of us Guyanese in the USA are also living in big, fancy homes and driving expensive SUV…..wonder where the $$$ comes from?
Well, canadian-babe I am living in a big fancy home and driving a
SUV, but the thing is I am a hard working woman and is doing it on my own. So, please do not start throwing stones because it will come back and break your glass door.
LIVE IN LOVE
PEACE OUT
I would like to tell all of you, that dealing drugs is hard work it takes allot out of you mentally to push it so don’t think what you do is any harder. Most of you haven’t see guyana in years or never been there so that gives you the right to talk about how its run or what comes out of it. I am every fortunate that i go back every 4 months because i hate this place that im living in, all its good for is to make money .
Well maybe you have big expensive clientel who can afford you.Just wish i could afford you too,but after gassing up my big expensive SUV which i’ved worked so hard for i am flat broke.
this is not the guyanese people problem. the people involved opens huge stores in guyana to lunder money. items sell cheap. this is good for the people with the cost of living going up.food for taught.
all you “mr. fix-it” should return to GT and show them how it’s done!
Try listening to Glen Fry’s “Smugglers Blues”. There is a lot of truth and hidden message.
Unfortunately in this world of GREED, which we are all guilty of, MOR
Like I said before” THERE’s bigger fish behind this drug trade.
To all the bloggers, SN, @ Mr Moderator Happy New Year.See you in the new Year. If you drink do not drive.Enjoy Old Years Nite.
Mr.Jagdeo, I do hope that you are getting involved in this terrible drug situation that is facing our country, you are the commander and chief of Guyana and you should show the nation that you are going to make sure you clamp down on this drug problem. Get those dealers and smugglers sooner than later, the innocent people who are travelling to and from Guyana will be harrassed at the airports for no reason and I can understand that they have to do their jobs but some of the things that we have to go through, it make us not want to travel.
This is the 3rd drug bust for this month. The PPP/C PARTY has encouraged a lot of illegal things to go on in Guyana and I blame them for a lot of things that are happening there, I am aware that some bloggers are going to disagree with me but I care less, so those nasty and rude reply would not and cannot move me.
We the Guyanese people will get a bad name now more than ever because of all this drug smuggling that is going on over there, I think that the mistake that we have made is opening the border to Brazil, this is just my opinion. I think that the drugs are coming through Venezula and Brazil into Guyana so they have to put more security to the borders to prevent the guns and drugs from coming into Guyana. ” CRYSTAL ” needs to stay in those two countries and let them find other countries to send crystal through. That is the main reason why the young people in Guyana are walking around crazy and don’t want to work because crystal has full control of their lives. What a SHAME. Oh Beautiful Guyana does not exist any more since the PPP/C is Power.
LIVE IN LOVE
PEACE OUT
Try listening to Glen Fry’s “SMUGGLERS BLUES”, there is a lot of truth in the lyrics.
Unfortunately we are all guilty of GREED! Some of us more than others. It is the altar that we are thought to worship at. Along the way we have lost the basic MORALS of this precious life.
Does anyone out there think there are forces in the shadow trying to undermine the Government of Guyana.